Knucklehead

ventually I came to realize that what was bothering her was that people’s sons and daughter’s, husbands and wives, were dying there and it was bringing back, far to sharply, her memories of – I hate to use the word, but – Vietnam

Wow, great post. Thank you.

This raises a point people forget to mention: the Vietnam War was just as traumatic for our parents’ generation as it was for our own. Probably more so, when you think about it.

The other thing here, for me, is that I’ve always been an “early adopter.”

I’m a natural born yes-sayer, and I’m the first one on a bandwagon (and not in a stupid way, either. I haven’t regretted most of the bandwagons I’ve hopped, though I will say that the T-factor Diet was a Debacle).

It’s been strange to me, these past few years, being so far outside the mainstream–or at least so far outside the mainstream of the town where I live–and from time to time it’s crossed my mind that maybe the reason I’m so alone here is that I’m simply the first one to make the move, and others will follow.

Now that, suddenly, ABB friends are wanting to hear what I have to say–wanting to know why I have come to be where I am–it occurs to me that maybe some others will be following in my wake.

I don’t think anyone in my circle is going to become a Bush fan, but I think a number of people in my circle are going to be deciding they want to vote for a Democratic hawk.